[On Windows in October 1984] It will be a significant advancement of the state of the art.
Bill Gates

[On developers at Microsoft being reviewed every six months by their peers and those in the bottom five percent being fired.] There are other jobs out there. If they don’t have what it takes to work at Microsoft, they can go to Boeing or back East.
Bill Gates

Being successful is not a fun thing sometimes. There is just a phenomenon where people don’t like a company as successful as ours.
Bill Gates

Ask any Wall Street analyst which company never over promises what’s going to happen, always talks up the risks in their business and takes the long-term approach. It’s Microsoft.
Bill Gates

I have an infinite amount of money. I would still order the same hamburger.
Bill Gates

[When running late for a meeting at a downtown Sheraton Hotel with friend Heidi Roizen suggesting they use the hotel’s valet parking.] Yeah, but it’s $12 and that’s not good value. [‘I’ll pay the $12.’ – Heidi Roizen] That’s not the point. They overcharge for parking.
Bill Gates

[In the early 90’s] Computers are not very easy to use. We don’t have information at our fingertips.
Bill Gates

There is one thing that is fun – I look out there and see fun people to work with, who are learning a lot. That’s cool, and that feels good…
Bill Gates

[At the 25th anniversary of the University of Washington’s computer science department] We’re scared all the time. We’re always saying, ‘Is this the day we’ve reached our peak?
Bill Gates

No company will prosper for long if products don’t go out the door or if the bills and the employees don’t get paid.
Bill Gates

If consultants get more insight from your systems than you do, it should be because of their unique abilities, not because you prepare information especially for the consultants that isn’t otherwise available to your staff.
Bill Gates